GA Russell Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Today is Orson Welles' 100th birthday! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles Other than Citizen Kane, what would you say was his best movie? Or if not his "best," your favorite? Edited May 6, 2015 by GA Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 A toss up between The Magnificent Ambersons and A Touch of Evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 As Director, "Touch of Evil." As actor, maybe "Compulsion." gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 As an actor -- The Third Man As a director -- Touch of Evil (that opening tracking shot is just amazing) I also find a lot to like about Mr. Arkadin and wish he had been able to make it with a bigger budget. It's not a really good movie, but it had the prospects of becoming a great movie if he had had the proper money and time budgets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I've got to admit I've got a soft spot for The Lady from Shanghai. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aparxa Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I haven't seen that much.Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and A Touch of Evil are my favorites.Falstaff and The Trial are eye-candy but difficult to enjoy. No fondness for The Stranger. I am in huge minority, but I've found that the intensity of the Third Man almost vanishes from the moment Welles gets on screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles65 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Touch of evil The lady from Shanghai I remember I liked them when I saw them but haven't seen the for a long time. Journey into fear The stranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Nice piece in Monday's SF Chron: Reflecting on the career and life Orson Welles at 100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Touch of Evil is the shit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 Besides Citizen Kane, much the same as everyone else. The Magnificent Ambersons, can only imagine what it would have been like without the studio's criminal butchery. Touch Of Evil Lady From Shanghai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 You can see Too Much Johnson here. Long lost,never completed early film. I wish they'd edited it but still wroth seeing: http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-print Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l p Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 i've only seen kane and 'F for Fake' (1974). F for Fake was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 The documentary It's All True was also very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 I liked his Othello. Don't know how "Shakespearean " it really was, but fuck it, Orson Welles, and all that came with that. Also, comedy record. http://www.allmusic.com/album/begatting-of-the-president-mw0000890802 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 That was really amazing, thanks for the upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) Producers Turn to Indiegogo to Finance Orson Welles’s Final Film MAY 7, 2015 Orson Welles, left, on the set of "The Other Side of the Wind," his last film. Peter Bogdanovich, center, is part of a push to release it. CreditLarry Jackson Continue reading the main story SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Add a few more twists to the decades-long quest to release “The Other Side of the Wind,” the unfinished final film of Orson Welles. In October, a team of producers pulled off a feat that had bedeviled various directors, movie companies and TV networks since Welles died in 1985: They secured the rights to 1,083 reels of “The Other Side of the Wind” footage stored in a warehouse outside Paris. Work began to raise millions of dollars to complete the film [...] Link to New York Times article: http://nyti.ms/1Ej15DQ Edited May 7, 2015 by alankin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 The Loft Cinema in Tucson is showing an OW film every Thursday in May Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesoul Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Huge season at the BFI in London: details. I also like Touch of Evil best, then Lady From Shanghai. I struggle with the literary adaptaions (Shakespeare, Kafka). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWM4_pIKVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted May 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear. Thanks bluesoul! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) Orson Welles's thoughts on pastrami (4th letter down) from 1946: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/from-the-american-scene-one-touch-of-delicatessen/ Edited May 8, 2015 by mjzee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted May 18, 2015 Report Share Posted May 18, 2015 Going to see Touch Of Evil on the BIG screen Thursday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted May 18, 2015 Report Share Posted May 18, 2015 TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear. They showed "MacBeth" last Friday, and I caught most of it. Dark production of a dark play and ill-fated too, since it was made at the same time as Olivier's far more famous and successful "Hamlet," but I thought it was pretty good. Liked the Scottish accents! gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear. They showed "MacBeth" last Friday, and I caught most of it. Dark production of a dark play and ill-fated too, since it was made at the same time as Olivier's far more famous and successful "Hamlet," but I thought it was pretty good. Liked the Scottish accents! gregmo Wasn't McBeth the last Gaelic speaking King of Scotland? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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